Templeton World Charity Foundation funds innovative, cross-disciplinary research projects
which support human flourishing and turn their discoveries into practical tools for the collective well-being.
It was founded in 1996 by Sir John Templeton, an American born British investor and philanthropist
who has always strived to create spaces of dialogue between science and spirituality.
His research on the development of human potential still inspires the work of the Foundation and the Diverse Intelligence initiative.
Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Diverse Intelligence initiative fosters the development of interdisciplinary projects enquiring the multi-faceted forms of intelligence in the natural and artificial world. The notion of intelligence is crucial to many fields of research: neuroscience, philosophy, biology, psychology, information technology, anthropology. Each of these subjects offers a partial view on the concept of intelligence, thus risking missing the opportunity of growth offered by the dialogue with different takes on the same notion.
Mapping the various forms of intelligence observed in the natural world, elucidating their nature, purpose and evolutionary origins.
Extending the scope of the notion of human intelligence to easily forgotten areas such as the moral and spiritual ones.
Encouraging a practical and positive human involvement through the usage of AI and machine learning.